Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, number 5 in the world, and Dutch Kiki Bertens, seventh, will not participate in the US Tennis Open, the organization, which no longer has Australian champion Ashleigh Barty or the last tournament champion, announced on Friday. Spanish Rafael Nadal.
Svitolina announced on her social networks that she is not “comfortable traveling to the US” due to the “high risk” of contagion despite the efforts of the American Tennis Association (USTA) to hold the tournament safely, while Bertens cited the problems that would generate a quarantine for 14 days on his return to Europe.
